The kirin mount

Is it me or does the Kirin mount (from having all primal unicorns) look a tad bit like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGjc1qLwoSQ

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Originally Posted by Nevaldus

Is it me or does the Kirin mount (from having all primal unicorns) look a tad bit like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGjc1qLwoSQ

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Would probably be that Kirin actually has a fairly consistent look for being a mythical creature and that monster is just another Kirin inspired monster: google.

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Originally Posted by Shougun

Would probably be that Kirin actually has a fairly consistent look for being a mythical creature and that monster is just another Kirin inspired monster: google.

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Ooo thanks for the link, now i'm going to study mythical creatures for a few hours.

Yeah except neither look anything like a cow or deer..
Somehow, everything always ends up looking like dragons :(

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Originally Posted by GenJoe

Yeah except neither look anything like a cow or deer..
Somehow, everything always ends up looking like dragons :(

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but...dragons!

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Originally Posted by Nevaldus

but...dragons!

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Yeah but if they wanted to add a dragon mount, they could've just made the Azure Dragon and keep Kirin as Kirin..
I swear.. soon we'll be seeing chocobo dragons at the rate we're going :P

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Originally Posted by GenJoe

Yeah except neither look anything like a cow or deer..
Somehow, everything always ends up looking like dragons :(

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A cow? :O a Moorin?

OP's link was technically a dragon but yeah a lot of Kirin's have a dragon look, I bet the fish scales really lended to the dragon look - along with the tiger head and people ran with that lol.

Some Kirins having dragon like qualities is actually pretty old though, can't remember when it came about but some of China's dynasties have dragon "Qilins".

Or in better words, but... dragons! :D

From "The Twelve Kingdoms"

http://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/...20110101160405

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/...20110101110119

http://www.darkmirage.com/blog/wp-co...unikokki04.jpg

http://vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/...20111105043132

Don't get me wrong, I think the Kirin mount looks pretty bad ass, I'm just not a fan of how the four beasts' aesthetics always bleed in (not just FF14) and they all end up looking like some sort of dragons..

For Kirin, I would really enjoy something that looks like Haitai, like an actual land animal, maybe not as fat :P


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiezhi

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Originally Posted by Shougun

A cow? :O a Moorin?

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Well, Kirin's supposed to be a cross between cow and deer.

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Originally Posted by GenJoe

Well, Kirin's supposed to be a cross between cow and deer.

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Where? Just getting the wiki page to make sure I didn't miss something, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qilin .

I don't recall hearing a Kirin is based from a cow. Edit: Dragon-ish Kirin can be found at least in the Jin Dynasty 265-420 - can't remember this stuff yay wiki lol.